{"product_id":"shapes-birdhouse-by-madeline-donahue","title":"Shapes Birdhouse by Madeline Donahue","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eShapes Birdhouse, 2025\u003cbr\u003eGlazed ceramic\u003cbr\u003e8 x 8 x 8 in.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eMadeline Donahue\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eMadeline Donahue (b. 1983, Houston, TX) makes paintings, drawings and ceramics that center on her experiences of pregnancy, birth, motherhood and owning a postpartum body. Her practice focuses on the surreal reality, physicality, emotionality and interdependence of these experiences. Intimacy is at the core of all of her work, addressing the simultaneous existence of abject and sublime\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e36 \u003c\/span\u003efacets implicit in the relationship with her children and body. These explorations detail these experiences – working through the isolation, fatigue, failure, anxiety, and joys of parenting. In Donahue’s work, pendulous breasts flap, stretched belly skin sags or flows. Many of her works include “bathers” – a nude figure moving through water, referencing Modernist portrayals of bathing women. She also references gymnastics, sports, and the “circus” of motherhood through titles, in the posture of her figures, and other visual representations. Each work is made efficiently in a fresh and fluid process that communicates and captures the immediacy of a present moment to create art.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Madeline Donahue","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42016749551706,"sku":"Birdhouse-MD","price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0590\/3643\/4522\/files\/Madeline-Donnahue.jpg?v=1762920908","url":"https:\/\/www.workingloose.com\/products\/shapes-birdhouse-by-madeline-donahue","provider":"Working Loose","version":"1.0","type":"link"}